Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, OR Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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Cemetery water bill, LUBA legal ruling mark blustery meeting
FREE MUSIC - On Thursday, July 17, Southern
Oregon Blues Band will perform for Concerts in the
Park, sponsored by Illinois Valley Chamber of Com-
merce. Each concert in the annual series in Jubilee
Park in Cave Junction runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Bar-
becued hamburgers and hot dogs, and soft drinks are
available. Attendees should bring their own chairs. The
audience also can participate in the 50-50 raffle, used
by the chamber to pay for the musicians.
ZONTA BUCKS - Josephine Community Libraries
Inc. (JCLI), which is working to reopen county libraries,
is helping to promote sales of tickets offered by Zonta
Club members for the annual Extreme Dream Raffle.
JCLI is encouraging sales because Zonta has said that
it will present a grant of up to $10,000 from its raffle to
purchase computers for the library system. Tickets are
available in Cave Junction at Dave’s Outdoor Power
Equipment, and in Grants Pass at Blind George’s. For
more information phone Nancy Smith at 471-9446.
BUSINESS BOOSTER - Because of construction to
add an economic development office, the RCC Illinois
Valley Learning Center in Kerby will be closed until ap-
proximately early December. The overall facility will fea-
ture a Northwest lodge-style appearance. RCC is estab-
lishing a Business Entrepreneurial Center (BEC)
program in collaboration with Illinois Valley Community
Development Organization, Southern Oregon Regional
Economic Development Inc., and Josephine County.
Most of the project funding, said RCC, is from a
$300,000 USDA grant with additional funding from the
county, RCC Foundation and the Four Way Foundation.
The Southern Oregon Guild Gallery in the RCC Belt
Bldg. also is closed temporarily.
Regarding the BEC program, Peter Angstadt, RCC
president, stated “The center will help fledgling business
owners get started, and help existing owners who want
to ramp-up production and take their business to the
next level. We’ll help point them in the right direction to
take advantage of opportunities out there.”
‘TAPS’ FOR VETS - Cremains from 14 identified
veterans recently were given military honors and inter-
ment at Eagle Point National Cemetery. Three of the 14
are World War I veterans; the remaining 11 represent
vets from World War II to the Vietnam War. “We are
working diligently to locate, identify and provide proper
military burials for these veterans’ remains,” said Jim
Willis, director of the Oregon Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
MAKING THE GRADE - Longtime valley resident
Gilly Squire notes an error in a July 2 story in the
Noose. The story included the notation that Kerbyville
Masons in 1979 bought the former Kerbyville Union
High School. Squire reports that actually it was the
Kerby Grade School, not the high school.
CANINE ATTRACTION - Josephine County Parks
& Rec Dept. plans to construct a dog park in the
Schroeder Park day-use area in Grants Pass. It would
have two sections to separate large dogs from smaller
pets. Donations of fencing, gates and a pooper scooper
disposal unit would provide animals space to run freely
off-leash, which is not allowed elsewhere in the park.
Contributions so far total $3,500, approximately half the
total needed. For more information contact Kevin
Entriken at 474-5285.
NOTEPAD - A spaghetti feed “with fun, laughter and
great music” will be held Saturday, July 26 by Illinois Valley
Safe House Alliance. It will begin at 6 p.m. at the alliance
building on Lister Street … An outdoor service and pot-
luck picnic will be held on Sunday, July 27 by Good Shep-
herd Lutheran Church. Phone 592-2290 for details …
Gayle Wilson and Sh-Boom will present a Back to the ’50s
concert on Tuesday, July 22 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Riverside
Park during a free concert sponsored by Grants Pass
Chamber of Commerce ... Barbership harmonizing is
available to women of all ages through the Rogue Valley
Women’s Barbershop Chorus. Like to sing? It’s possible to
be a guest for up to four months without joining. Practices
are held Thursdays from 7 to 9:30 at the Boys & Girls Club
in Grants Pass. For more information phone President
Marty Patten at 476-6262 … Newspaper goofs: *Besides
their daughter Susan, and Dennis, an altered boy at St.
Mark’s, the couple has three other children. *An inmate at
the prison said he was awakened and thrown from his bed
by a loud blast in his pajamas. *Five outlaw motorcyclists
are to be arraigned in connection with a fight at the town
diner. No one was seriously injured, except a waitress who
was bruised in the fracas. *Huge Pacific smells caused by
an Alaskan tidal wave threatened beach homes.
LAST WORDS - I don't believe in a government that
protects us from ourselves. (President Reagan)
Curry County Fair
July 24-27
$1,000s in Prizes
Tuff Trucks - $1,000 $plit
Saturday, July 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Tuff Powder Puff - $1,000
Demolition Derby - $1,000
Sunday, July 27 at 2 p.m.
Truck Tug-of-War - Pur$e
Carnival-by-the-Sea
Armbands every day
Gold Beach (541) 247-4541
curryfair@harborside.com
Irritation with periods of
calm marked a meeting of the
Cave Junction City Council
during which a Merlin resi-
dent twice was ordered to sit
down and not speak.
In one occurrence Mon-
day night, June 14 in city hall,
Mayor Tony Paulson told
Holger Sommer, a land-use
and policy activist who lives
in Merlin, that he (the mayor)
did not recognize him as a
spokesman for Laurel Ceme-
tery Association (LCA).
Sommer was with rural Cave
Junction resident Joel Per-
kins, who was authorized by
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production efforts.
For most of us, the costs
of gas, food, housing, fuel,
roads and law enforcement
are getting out of hand -- and
the environmental extremists
are primarily responsible. We
should take time to recognize
these people and give them
our special blessing because
they have allowed us to give
up so much on behalf of their
extremist beliefs.
Environmental extrem-
ists have discounted the guid-
ing principles of conserva-
tionist Gifford Pinchot, when
he helped establish the U.S.
Forest Service. Pinchot un-
derstood values of Nature and
how to protect the forests
with a balance of economics
and management of our re-
sources.
Integrated forest manage-
ment strategies look at the
health of the forest within an
adaptive management con-
text. Plans call for the devel-
opment of a variety of stand
structures across the land-
scape. This will, in turn,
benefit local and regional
economies while providing
ample opportunities for forest
recreation such as hunting,
berry picking, wildlife view-
ing and hiking.
Healthy forest ecosys-
tems with varied stand struc-
tures also have an added
benefit as a deterrent against
forest fires. Plans also have
strategies for properly func-
tioning aquatic and riparian
habitats which will benefit the
recreational and commercial
fisheries.
Because environmental
extremists have successfully
blocked almost all federal
timber sales through our legal
system, we now have densely
stocked, unhealthy forests
resulting in catastrophic an-
nual forest fires.
Don’t blame Speaker of
the House Nancy Pelosi for
not renewing legislation to
obligate money for federal
timber payments.
Activists have been pres-
suring and suing governments
and agencies for decades. Ac-
tivists are excluding science
and proven safe practices to
scare people into paying more
for fuel that is not safer for the
environment.
The result is a system of
government bowing to special
interests. It’s called tyranny by
the minority -- and the rest of
us are paying the price.
LCA to represent it in con-
nection with a water bill.
LCA early in June was
billed for nearly $51,000 due
to a broken pipe. However,
due to what the city said was
a computer program error
involving an errant zero, it
subsequently was determined
that the bill actually should be
$4,503. Perkins on Monday
night took the position that
not only can LCA not pay the
bill “whether $50,000 or
$4,500,” but that the city’s
inaccuracy raises the specter
that perhaps many billings are
incorrect.
This contention was in-
tensely denied by Paulson
and City Recorder Jim Polk.
Perkins continued to hammer
at the discrepancy involving
LCA, saying that initially the
city stated there was no mis-
take and statements that the
original bill was correct.
On behalf of LCA he
asked that the $4,500 bill be
dismissed. City Councilman
Dan Fiske said that in order to
be fair to taxpayers, some
other arrangement might be
reached. He also noted, “I
don’t think we’re interested in
taking over the cemetery” and
suggested a “variable cost.”
Eventually, the council
agreed that the city should
determine what it cost to
process the more than 2 mil-
lion gallons of water for
which LCA was billed. Per-
kins is to meet with Polk re-
garding a final solution.
Another period of annoy-
ance, resulting in some exas-
peration, occurred near the
end of the meeting when
Sommer presented a $7,936
check for legal fees incurred
by the city because of an ap-
peal he filed with the state
Land Use Board of Appeals
(LUBA). He was ordered by
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Support Selma Farmers’ Market
Sundays, 10-2
Rotary Club
of Illinois Valley
The ducks are coming.
The fifth annual Rogue Duck
Derby will be held in Grants
Pass on Sept. 27. Funds
raised will help with capital
improvements to athletic fa-
cilities at area high schools.
Adoption locations in Illinois
Valley include Bi-Rite Auto
Parts and Home Valley Bank.
I.V. Rotary will staff duck
adoption booths at the Con-
certs in the Park, Bluegrass
Festival, Blackberry and La-
bor Day festivals, and Art
Walk. Prizes include $20,000
toward the purchase of a new
car or truck and vacation
packages.
The club will host its first
scramble golf tournament on
Saturday, July 26 at Illinois
Valley Golf Course.
Sign-ins will begin at 8
a.m.; shotgun start at 9 a.m. A
$50 per-person fee includes
continental breakfast, 18-
holes of golf, thirst-aid station
offering teas and juices, and a
Taylor’s barbecue during the
awards ceremony.
No experience, no shoes,
no clubs? No problem. Phone
Billie Coakley for details at
592-3350, or email
cabinchemist@cavenet.com.
Rotary Club of Illinois
Valley meets Tuesdays at
12:15 p.m. in the Junction
Inn’s Boswell Room.
Illinois Valley Lions Club
The club installed new
officers for 2008-09 July 8.
The new officers are
Dennis Reviea, president;
Steve Lyons, first vice presi-
dent; Mark Camp, second
vice president; To m
Lindewell, third vice presi-
dent; Chris Smith, secretary;
Lewie Spencer, treasurer.
Presentations also in-
cluded recognition of new
board members George
McElroy, Harry Johnson, and
John Gibson. Club members
Dave Anderson and Richard
Strohl each received the
Helen Keller Award, and
Lion of the Year recognition
went to Dale Hatch.
They will continue the
club’s involvement with a
number of community pro-
jects, including five scholar-
ships to Illinois Valley High
School students, support for
the high school wrestling
team, a Little League baseball
team, the Boys & Girls Club,
Guide Dog Program, Lovejoy
Hospice, American Red
Cross Bloodmobile, and Boys
& Girls State Program. Addi-
tionally, they maintain and
loan durable medical equip-
ment from potty chairs to
electric wheelchairs, and pro-
vide assistance in getting pre-
scribed eye-glasses and hear-
ing aids.
I.V. Lions Club also or-
ganizes and produces the an-
nual Easter Egg Hunt, and the
annual Labor Day Parade &
Festival in Jubilee Park.
The club’s major source
of funding for the community
projects is the annual drawing
for a motorcycle. This year’s
drawing is for a 2008 Harley
Davidson FXDL-Dyna Low
Rider valued at $17,110.
Only 300 tickets at $100 each
are printed, so the odds of
winning a new bike are one in
300. The drawing will be held
at 6 p.m. on Labor Day in
Jubilee Park, and the winner
need not be present.
Siskiyou Field Institute
Tuesday, July 22 is the
deadline to sign up for the an-
nual dinner that will begin at 7
p.m. Friday, July 25 at Deer
Creek Center following a 6
p.m. social hour.
At 8 p.m., keynote speak-
ers -- Dr. Darlene Southworth,
Jonathan L. Frank, and Robert
A. Coffan -- from the depart-
ments of biology and environ-
mental studies at Southern
Oregon University at Ashland
will present Hidden Diversity:
Mushrooms Underwater and
Underground.
Vendors: $10 booth rental (non-members)
$5 booth rental with $25 membership
18255 Redwood Hwy.
415-1000 or 597-2522
Kate’s Redwood Bar & Grill presents
Concerts
by the
in Wonder,
featuring Tidewater
Creek
Groove Band
Saturday, July 26
Beer Garden 6:30 to 10:30, Live Music 7 to 11
~ Food Available ~
Come enjoy an evening under the stars!
Sorry, no outside beverages,
no minors, no pets.
476-8990
Boys and Girls!
Looking for a fun thing to do this summer?
Come to
Vacation Bible School
for
songs
stories
games
crafts
IT’S ALL FREE!
August 4-16, 2008
Cave Junction S.D.A. Church
265 Old Stage Road South
for more info, phone Sheila 218-1642
A little trivia: Where was Paul headed when he met Jesus in his
vision? Last weeks answer: Luke.
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Is Now Closed
For Construction
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